Tesco Marketing Conference (UK) February 2017
De La Rue Leadership event (UK) December 2016
PepsiCo Innovation Forum (USA) November 2016
IAG Cargo Presentation on Culture (UK) June 2016
AURA Conference - Marketing Insight (UK) April 2016
British Gas 'Great Service' - Conference (UK) June 2015
Informa Conference (Cannes) May 2015
"The speech was very well received and
with incredibly useful content, as well as the conversation facilitated
afterwards. I heard the phrase "as Matt said..." used multiple
times the rest of the event"!
Lana Howard
Group Operations
Executive UK
Ageas Strategy Conference (UK)March 2015
“Thank you for the fantastic inputs to our
strategy event. Just the right balance of input, idea stimulation and fun! All
feedback very positive.”
Andy Watson
CEO Ageas UK
Lyn Nicholls
HR Director
Ageas UK
Twinings Marketing Excellence Masterclass(UK)February 2015
British Airways Top 150 Conference (UK) January 2015
“We’ve got the feedback from the conference.
Summary – THEY LOVED YOU!!!!!
94% very satisfied”
Andrew Crawley
Chief Commercial
Officer, British Airways
Global Business Forum (South Korea) December 2014
Restore PLC Sales Conference (UK)October 2014
Barclays Bank PLC Top 150 Conference (UK)September 2014
Design Management Institute (UK)June 2014
“Matt’s keynote at the DMI conference was one
of the highlights of the day. There were practical examples and insights gained
from the frontline of innovation all delivered in an entertaining and engaging
way. The diverse audience of designers, innovators and business
leaders were challenged to combine conviction with humility and seek learning
from taking 'smaller bets’ on shorter real world experiments to inform the
innovation journey.”
Lee Sankey
Group Design Director,
Barclays Bank PLC
HCLI Keynote speech (Singapore) January 2014
Unilever Lunchtime Lecture (Singapore)January 2014
Mondelez Keynote speech (Singapore)January 2014
Abbvie Away Day (Keynote)November 2013
Unilever Lunchtime Lecture (UK)November 2013
'The session with What If Innovation was a
great success, with over 50 delegates from the UK business turning up! Matt had
a really refreshing way to share with us his experience, using real life
examples to demonstrate that great ideas can come together by trying and taking
some risks, rather than always planning and working to process.'
Gaelle Bouchard
Brand Building
Excellence Manager
"The lunchtime lecture from Matt Kingdon
was fascinating. To hear how Matt set up and grew one of London's
most innovative and breakthrough creative agencies was well worth the
investment of an hour. I took a lot away from the session, in terms
of the way Matt thinks differently, but also how he overcome the challenges
along the path and ultimately what lessons he has learnt. Invest in
yourself and go......"
Matt Burgess
General Manager, Europe
Matt Burgess
General Manager, Europe
British Gas Leadership EventNovember 2013
Liberty Global Fast Forward Event (Keynote)September 2013
Authors at Google July 2013
Ebay Senior Leaders External PlatformJuly 2013
Landmark Insurance speech, Keynote
SpeakerJuly 2013
"Your session was one of the highest
rated of the day and provided a great scene setting for the day. As opening
sessions go, it’s certainly up there with the most successful of recent years."
Jo Miller
Web and Research
Manager, Le Beau Visage
Pepsico AMEA Speech, Stories from the Front Line, Keynote SpeakerJune 2013
Academy for Chief Executives London
Conference, Keynote speakerMay 2013
Innovation, Creativity and Leadership
Conference at City University LondonMay 2013
Fast Company – Innovation Uncensored
Conference, Keynote speaker (New York)April 2013
Barclaycard - Innovation Capability
Event, keynote speakerDecember 2012
Harvard Business School Health Industry
Alumni Conference, keynote speakerOctober 2012
“If you ask who is the best thinker in
innovation today most people would say Clay Christensen, but if you ask who is
the best practicioner of innovation I say it is Matthew Kingdon”
Dave Green, President,
Harvard Bioscience
The Network Discussion Group, keynote speaker
September 2012
“Matt provided a really engaging history of
the creation of What If? and it’s evolution the most interesting exponent of
innovative thinking I know. He was amusing, instructive and very open about the
culture of what I believe is a remarkable company”
Peter LeBeau, Managing
Director, Le Beau Visage
Unilever Detergent Brand Stewardship Conference (Barcelona)June 2012
Financial Services Conference
September 2011
‘We really appreciated Matt's support to a
number of events, in particular his fresh perspective and his capability to
connect and be relevant to very different audiences.
He truly has the customer at the heart of
what he does and has a unique capability of capturing key moments/ views/ data/
ideas that ‘stick’ and make it easy to understand what needs to be done.
Whenever we engage with Matt, we are sure we
would walk away somehow with true clarity about one specific change we need to
bring in the organisation as quickly as possible – it’s the mix of strength of
insights, relevance, easy to ‘feel’ and get what needs to be done that makes
Matt’s contributions unique and remarkable’
Lloyds Banking Group - Global Payments
Conference
March 2011
'What If thinking is great ad inspirational-
will be looking to take it away and put it into practice'
Delegate feedback
The Economist, Future of Banking SummitMarch 2011
'We all agree on innovation's crucial role in
delivering growth and competitive advantage. Matt is uniquely qualified to
demonstrate how innovation works in practice - where it comes from, what it
leads to.'
Dougal Thomson,Head of
Conference Programmes, The Economist
Fujitsu, Executive Discussions EveningsFebruary 2011
'Matt's a great storyteller and he's got a
unique perspective on the challenges multinational corporations face as they
try to innovate.'
Vince Kerr, Marketing
Director
Abu Dhabi, Innovation ForumJanuary 2011
'At the Abu Dhabi Innovation Forum. So far,
Matt Kingdon from @whatif_newyork was
the most interesting by far.'
@RonyElNashar Rony
El-Nashar
Travis Perkins, Annual ConferenceJuly 2010
“Matt is a very stimulating speaker and gave
a great boost to the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurialism throughout our
Group.”
Geoff Cooper,
CEO, Travis Perkins
Body Shop, 100 Leaders ForumJuly 2010
ISPIM Innovation Symposium, Bilbao (Spain)June 2010
Global Radio, Annual ConferenceMarch 2010
'If you're looking for an inspirational,
highly motivational speaker you'll do no better than Matt Kingdon. Having
co-created and led the most successful innovation company in this country he is
an amazing storyteller. What makes him unique as a speaker is that they're his
own stories!'
Stephen Miron
Group CEO, Global Radio
